And here is now another example: I am at the hairdresser, someone hands me an issue of Paris-Match. On the cover, a young Negro in a French army uniform is saluting, his eyes uplifted, doubtless fixed on a fold of the Tricolor. That is the meaning of the image. But naively or not, I clearly understand what it signifies to me: that France is a great Empire, that all her sons, regardless of color, faithfully serve under her flag, and that there is no better answer to the detractors of an alleged colonialism, than the zeal of this black man to serve his alleged oppressors.
― translated by MZ